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When China supplied cheap critical minerals, the West called it dumping. Market manipulation. Unfair. Now China restricts supply, and it's suddenly "weaponization."
It has its grounds, but the word can be misleading to think China is implementing export controls unprovoked.
For decades, the West was happy to outsource both the processing and the pollution to China. Cheap minerals, someone else's environmental problem.
Meanwhile,China educated its people, built talent pipelines from scratch, tackled the dirty chemistry no one else wanted. The result: China now dominates in processing minerals. Decades of deliberate and executable industrial policies. Permitting. Subsidies. Cheap energy.
The West's response? The Quad "talked about it." Japan-Korea-US "had a meeting."
China can build things faster than the time it takes for an entity to get a permit in US. That's the gap.
When one country spent decades building and the other spent decades chest-beating , the outcome was already determined. You can't sanction your way from China's dominance in processing minerals.
Oh. Just to set things right - they're not targeting Japan. They are targeting the US, and Japan just happened to be the sacrificial lamb.
China understands that Japan processes majority of the critical minerals before they go to US. If Japan breaks, US falls with it.
So your "we" are alluding that US has been held hostage by China's export controls? 😉
“China has weaponized access to critical minerals and supply chains, and are using it against Japan perhaps more than any other country in the world... I think all have an interest in diversifying our supply chains so we can never be held hostage again in the future by anybody.” @SecRubio
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📢🇺🇸 NEVER FORGET WIPED HISTORY:
U.S. soldiers stealing gold from the central Bank in Iraq in the name of democracy.
This video is BANNED 🚫
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🇧🇾 Lukashenko on the lie of Western "human rights":
You bombed a school in a sovereign country thousands of kilometers away. How many lives have been lost because you encouraged bombings by Israel? What human rights are you talking about?
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Understanding how the US and Israel play “bad cop versus good cop”
It allows the US “plausible deniability” by claiming Israel has gone rogue.
Don’t fall for it.
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Trump can't TACO his way out of this one. US leaving Strait of Hormuz to Iran would give Iran effective control over global oil/gas trade. All the EU countries will drop sanctions on Iran, trade hydrocarbon in RMB & use CIPS if they want to have energy. All while these countries accelerate push toward renewables & EVs.
Resulting situation will be one where Iran gets rich off the transit fees, dominate Persian Gulf region, make great money off oil/gas resources, do all the transaction on BRICS affiliated currency/transaction system, received huge investment from China/India to rebuild its entire economy & infrastructure, recycle earnings into investment in non-US financial mkt & all GCC countries remove investment from US tech sector.
It would be a giant disaster for the entire US economy & complete calamity on Western power.
As you can see, the Europeans are already denying airspace to US military aircraft. They in fact do need access to energy to survive. No amount of think tank articles can get you out of this one. No amount of Claude agents can create energy for you out of nothing.
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My Speech at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva @UNGeneva today (March 18th)!
Calling out the US, UK & NATO for their MASSIVE double standards — preaching human rights while letting Israel get away with genocide!
The blood of Palestinians and Iranians is on their hands!
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Let me set the record straight.
Former Vice Chairman of the CMC, Zhang Youxia's main charge was "Undermining the Chairman Responsibility System" within the Central Military Commission.
Chairman Xi asked the CMC to do something, they, due to vested interests did not perform the task given to them. AKA insubordination.
It has nothing to do with "nuclear secrets" or any foreign countries.
So what is this task? A task so important and consequential? It's Taiwan.
If Generals has their own personal vested interest on the line to not do something, when the Chairman ordered them to, then that's insubordination, that's forming cliques opposing to the strategic direction decided by the Party.
Old generals are not the most valuable asset in a military, if the top brass needs new blood to get the job done, then we will simply find those new blood. Those who dare, those who are capable, those who are aligned with the Party's strategic decision.
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For those fantasizing about a military coup in China:
It had only successfully happened ONCE since 1949, sort of. It was the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976.
Why sort of? The then General Secretary Hua Guofeng and the majority of the Party's senior leadership was in agreement. So strictly speaking it was not a coup, rather an armed factional struggle.
The military was acting as subordinate to the Party's civilian leadership decisions.
The Central Guard Bureau (CGB) at the behest of the Party leadership arrested the Gang of Four and their affiliates.
So this only example of a successful "coup" in PRC history, was a Party led decision to resolve factional struggle using force.
The point is, no major decisions gets done without the explicit majority agreement of the Party senior leadership (The Party's Civilian Central Committee), even in a coup-like scenario, the military simply follow orders.
So the idea that a general can somehow out maneuver the General Secretary of the Party and the entire Central Committee is simply ridiculous.
Zhang Youxia even as Vice Chairman of the CMC NEVER had the authority to mobilize forces, especially not units within the CGB, without explicit orders from the Party's civilian leadership.
Any talk of military coups should have died with the 2016 military reforms, when EVERY PLA units down to the Divisional level was rearranged to sever all nepotistic relationships and factional loyalty.
The 4 General Departments was also disbanded in 2016, replaced by smaller more professionalized departments answer directly to the Chairman of the CMC (Xi Jinping).
If you see anyone talking about coups led by military officers in China, you can immediately dismiss their takes on China, since they don't even understand the Party control of the military.
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5000 retweets ill release the txts of her begging for money for her "company" and begging to see me again.
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$QNT
QNT at $1.4B Marketcap is actually crazy and it’s the only one that’s actually working with the commercial and central banks alongside governments and International bodies
The BIS is the best example
QNT is a utility token that will be powering the very foundation of the inter connected world and new global financial system
Few understand that adoption is at 0.05% for QNT
Just wait 👀
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Thrilled to share a major milestone from the team at Quant 🚀
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"Socialism is achieved by hard work."
- 🇨🇳President #XiJinping
#InternationalWorkersDay
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IShowSpeed's China tour is single-handedly dismantling 70 years of Cold War propaganda.
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“If one day China becomes a superpower and bullies other country like an imperial empire, then people around the world, together with the Chinese people, shall rise up and overturn it.”
- Deng Xiaoping in UN 1974
China continues to uphold his words today.
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The real cost of #Birkin bag and what you are really paying for.🤦♂️